Been Waiting for the Rain to Flow

Arcade and Flat Time House are pleased to present a new exhibition with Can Altay (Turkey, 1975). Through drawing, sculptural propositions and the presentation of research, Altay speculates how access to water can act as a model towards a more regenerative public space. Central to this presentation is a large-scale sculptural intervention, filling Flat Time House’s rear gallery that acts as a proposal for a rainwater-harvesting drinking fountain. At this moment where water and its processing has become a subject of prevalent political dialogue, this exhibition provokes a conversation around our environment and who cares for it.

Can Altay’s works have been exhibited at institutions such as Walker Art Center, PS1 MoMA, Hessel Museum of Art Bard College, ZKM, MAXXI, Artists Space, Van Abbe Museum, SALT; with solo shows in London, Berlin, Rome, Istanbul, Bolzano, Utrecht, Bristol. Altay participated twice in the Istanbul Biennial. Other biennials his work was shown include Havana, Busan, Gwangju, Marrakech, Yinchuan...

Can Altay’s works have been exhibited at institutions such as Walker Art Center, PS1 MoMA, Hessel Museum of Art Bard College, ZKM, MAXXI, Artists Space, Van Abbe Museum, SALT; with solo shows in London, Berlin, Rome, Istanbul, Bolzano, Utrecht, Bristol. Altay participated twice in the Istanbul Biennial. Other biennials his work was shown include Havana, Busan, Gwangju, Marrakech, Yinchuan, Çanakkale, Taipei, and Thessaloniki. Altay’s works are included in public collections such as VanAbbe Museum (Eindhoven), ARTER-VKV (Istanbul). Public projects include open recording studio spaces MÇPS (Istanbul, 2017); 'Loughborough Records Present Presence' (Loughborough, 2016); usable sculptures and networked objects 'Inner Space Station' (New York, 2013); 'Distributed' (London, 2012); and critical emancipatory propositions on existing formats as in 'The Church Street Partners’ Gazette' (London, 2010-13) and 'PARK: bir ihtimal' (Istanbul, 2010).